"I don't think a distro focused on delivering a gaming experience would have
any sort of effect at all on the behavior of proprietary game developers."
We may have to agree to disagree on this. I acknowledge it will depend on lot
on the success or failure of integrating a user-friendly way for users to
buy/ donate to the games in the distro. I grant that it's a longshot, but
again, it's a vision I find exciting enough to want to work on unpaid (at
least at first ;).
Even if you're right about proprietary developers in general (and the fact
that SteamOS has massively increased interest in releasing games for
GNU/Linux at all suggests otherwise), surely those who have liberated some/
all of their code have some interest in libre gaming, and therefore some
potential to be influenced? Why else would they have liberated what they
have? Maybe you've tried and written about the experience, link me?
Even if you're right about every developer who has a single proprietary
component in their game, what about all the free code developers and libre
artists who might be motivated to fork both the trap and non-trap games, to
create fully libre versions? If we allow the trap and non-trap games to be
used on the distro, even in separate repos, the incentive to do this is
reduced (see I'm trying to ironman you're argument here). One solution that
occurs is only allowing games in the 100% libre repo to use the payment/
donate system, with games in hypothetical trap and non-trap repos (to use
your terms) only able to be downloaded "for testing and review purposes".
"I'm not staunchly against non-trap proprietary games being in such a distro"
I take your point about messaging, but I think the point of disagreement is
about what counts as being "in the distro". In my mind, items in special
repos, clearly marked in the game library according to their exact non-libre
status with big flashing warnings, are not "in the distro". Anymore than
everything on the web is "in the distro" just because it can be accessed
through the browser ('web library', so to speak) that is in the distro.
I explained in my blog piece (linked in my recent comment) what I think the
gain is. Again, we might be best to just agree to disagree about this and see
what happens.
